install taking up entire HD or fault?

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Starfire

Hey guys first time posting and a newbie to the bsd world, anyway i bought western digital 320 gb external hard drive so my freebsd install could have its own home, but after the install freebsd tells me i only have 268 mega bytes left on my hard drive.

At the partition interface i picked auto allocation because i wanted to use the whole disc, i did not create any partitions manually.

Not sure whats going on, would appreciate any help, cheers guys.
 
320G according to the hard drive manufacturers is 320,000,000,000 bytes. That's 298G in real gigabytes (1024^3). Then FreeBSD only shows 92% of the space available, which gives 274G, or about what you see after it's broken up into FreeBSD partitions.
 
wblock said:
320G according to the hard drive manufacturers is 320,000,000,000 bytes. That's 298G in real gigabytes (1024^3). Then FreeBSD only shows 92% of the space available, which gives 274G, or about what you see after it's broken up into FreeBSD partitions.
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Thank you for the reply, but i actually ran out of space, maybe the HD is broken even though its never been used for anything..
 
Starfire said:
Thank you for the reply, but i actually ran out of space, maybe the HD is broken even though its never been used for anything..
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Sorry, I missed the real question. What, exactly, told you it was out of space? What version of FreeBSD?

Automatic sizing used poorly-chosen sizes, particularly for /. But it only runs out of space if you build new kernels, or use / for general storage, which is a mistake.

The installer has recently been changed, so FreeBSD-8.2 will use larger default sizes. Until then, the only option is to change the sizes on setup. For standard usage (not tiny embedded systems), I recommend no less than 1G in each filesystem, and more in /var/ and /usr.

Resizing partitions will wipe the filesystems. See Backup Options For FreeBSD if you have an existing installation you want to save.
 
wblock said:
Sorry, I missed the real question. What, exactly, told you it was out of space? What version of FreeBSD?

Automatic sizing used poorly-chosen sizes, particularly for /. But it only runs out of space if you build new kernels, or use / for general storage, which is a mistake.

The installer has recently been changed, so FreeBSD-8.2 will use larger default sizes. Until then, the only option is to change the sizes on setup. For standard usage (not tiny embedded systems), I recommend no less than 1G in each filesystem, and more in /var/ and /usr.

Resizing partitions will wipe the filesystems. See Backup Options For FreeBSD if you have an existing installation you want to save.
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Yeah im actually using 8.0 i oped up the hard drive system icon went to properties and for some reason its saying 57 gigs used with no space left, this is on a 320g hd...


56 gigs for a freebsd install and no room left on a 320 gig drive.

Going to download frebsd 8.2 and see how we go, these problems seem really bizare though :\
 
wblock said:
Sorry, I missed the real question. What, exactly, told you it was out of space? What version of FreeBSD?

Automatic sizing used poorly-chosen sizes, particularly for /. But it only runs out of space if you build new kernels, or use / for general storage, which is a mistake.

The installer has recently been changed, so FreeBSD-8.2 will use larger default sizes. Until then, the only option is to change the sizes on setup. For standard usage (not tiny embedded systems), I recommend no less than 1G in each filesystem, and more in /var/ and /usr.

Resizing partitions will wipe the filesystems. See Backup Options For FreeBSD if you have an existing installation you want to save.
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Thanks for the info, in going to DL 8.1 just to be up to date and then try again! :)

One last thing, in freebsd i opened up hard drive properties and it says ive used 57 gigs and all i did was install freebsd, ontop of that im somehow out of disc space even though its a 320gig HD Its all very strange.
 
Starfire said:
One last thing, in freebsd i opened up hard drive properties and it says ive used 57 gigs and all i did was install freebsd, ontop of that im somehow out of disc space even though its a 320gig HD Its all very strange.
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Where exactly is this "hard drive properties"?

Use
% gpart show
to see a detailed layout of the disk.

As for the original problem, are you sure it was not just a "/tmp filesystem is out of space" error or something like that?
 
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